neovide: can't run neovide in ubuntu 20.04

when i try to run neovide in ubuntu 20.04: thread main panicked at Failed to initialize any backend! Wayland status: NoCompositorListening X11 status: XOpenDisplayFailed, /root/.cargo/registry/s

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Same issue on Pop!_OS 21.04 on Wayland. I tried with snap install neovide only

Vikram-Hegde on Aug 14, 2021

Anyone found a solution for this error? I’m getting the following error on Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon.

thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to initialize any backend! Wayland status: NoCompositorListening X11 status: XOpenDisplayFailed', /root/.cargo/git/checkouts/winit-cdba476763ae8f28/3b5462e/src/platform_impl/linux/mod.rs:626:9 note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace

dhelbegor on Jul 27, 2021